Why is YouTube so TOXIC?? 🤔

see? I did the clickbaity thing too

I would judge someone for using Uwuntu or hannah montana linux though

To be honest, a-holes are in every community. In about 30 years on internet I never find a community without some of them

A missed opportunity to call them archoles.

Yeah, even as a non-Arch user, often many of the issues in looking into still end up at an arch wiki or with some other arch user who has an issue that similar enough to put me on the right track

The arch wiki is pretty on point for general information about specifics and can often translate across distros.

But like one of the OPs said, a lot of the folks tend to be a bit gate keepy/defensive or very much fanboys of specific distros.

I’ve been avoiding linux groups in general for the last 20 years because every time I dip in (slashdot, digg, reddit) I wind up asking a legitimate question I get hammered by someone who thinks they are better than everyone else. My last instance was trying to set options in grub or from the console to change the default CLI resolution – the post was taken over by a mod who didn’t even seem to understand what I was asking, and spent his time answering every post by berating me for having the gall for connecting a monitor to a server, because “a real server would never have any kind of display device connected to it.” I finally found out why I wasn’t getting any replies from the people that had tried to help, someone told me later the mod must have shadow-banned me from the group. That person had logged in under their mod account and noticed all my unanswered replies in the post which they hadn’t been able to see under a regular account.

The linux groups here on Lemmy are my first positive experience with any linux groups, and I really hope it stays that way.

I’m currently using Arch and doing the same thing. I learned more than a decade ago not to even bother with asking questions to the community at large. Bunch of self righteous dicks they are.

Any thoughts on which distro has the friendliest community?

I looked this up a few months ago when I was changing from Fedora to OpenSUSE.
OpenSUSE itself was mentioned as having a friendly community, which I thought was great since I was switching to it anyway.

But my first experience asking for help on their official forums was ehhh—I asked about some guidance I’d read in the official docs (basically a blurb that said FYI, you can do this another way), and was told, condescendingly, that “no one does it that way.”

That’s fine—the sarcastic or condescending tone I mean—maybe it’s a European or a German thing that’s rubbed off on its users.

The distro itself it great though. I’ve been able to solve most other issues myself.

What are the arch forums?

Same experience, but on the ubuntu forums more than a decade ago. Those people who can’t get recognition IRL seek it online. It doesn’t help that they socially awkward due to being ostracized IRL. So they have to spend a lot of time alone teaching themselves stuff / the hard way: through experience and by being belittled by other people who are a few years down the same experience.

They are just like Catholics: I had to suffer, so you do too. The lack of physical presence dehumanizes the interlocutor and makes it easier to be a dick and a compounding factor is one cannot punch somebody through a screen for being a twat.

The less fortunate discriminating against the even less fortunate because for once they have power. It’s very human and as many things human, very detrimental.

@elouboub @BearPear I mean having a declarative system ist kind of nice, but with a Fedora Silverblue like system you have most of the advantages of Nix as well.

It’s kind mind boggling how often you have to ask the OP to actually post the command they tried to run or the full error message and some of them will actually try to argue that it won’t help. The people that frequent the forums start to get a bit annoyed at having to beg for bread crumbs and they eventually either become toxic or burn out and leave the community.

I’d disagree about that being the worst case scenario.

When I used to use Arch and asked a question on the Arch forum, they removed my post because they saw I was using Pamac so they assumed I was actually on Manjaro. They didn’t ask me if I’m using Manjaro or anything, they just assumed I was and removed it.

I reposted the question and clarified that I was using Arch, but that got removed again due to it being a duplicate of a removed question.

I made a meta post about what I should be doing in order to not get my posts removed and that got removed as well, though I don’t remember the reason they gave for that.

That was the last time I posted on the Arch forum and shortly after, I switched to Void Linux.

It’s not like any place on the internet is all that friendly once it grows more than a couple dozen people.

Nobody watched the video and the down arrow is there for when you disagree, simple as.

I downvote because he asked how many he can get. Otherwise, I’m neutral to it, as I’m not gonna watch a video in public rn.

Also, I use Arch btw

Arch users getting triggered by a clickbait title